Step by step / Extreme Long Stiletto gel nail
| Preparation: Prepare the nail as usual: 1. push the skin up, remove any sticky skin with the scrappy part of the preparatory spatula, 2. shorten the nail length, 3. mat the surface with 180 grit file, 4. Dust off carefully, then use the preparatory liquids for proper sterilization, dehydration and adhesion (first use Nail Prep, then the acid or acid-free primer, as you like, or even both), 5. Before placing the pattern, remove the middle part and stick it as reinforcement onto the back side of the part below the free edge. Cut the pattern and tailor it to the form of the natural nail’s free edge, if necessary. The pattern should be positioned accurately according to the form of the desired built nail. Now, in this case, I shaped the pattern after the form of the modern stiletto nail, but if you like to build a parallel sided nail, it should have a parallel or slightly shrinking cylinder form. |
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1. After preparation, place the Butterfly pattern and tilt it a bit upward from the finger line. |
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2. Apply a thin base layer of Titanium gel. |
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3. Continue with the base layer but a bit thicker on the Butterfly pattern and create the long V-shaped form. Then cure it for about half a minute. |
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4. Remove the pattern carefully. |
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5. Do the nail bed elongation with Brilliant 531 gel. |
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6. Thin away the Brilliant gel as you move toward the cuticle (create it color transient) and finish it at about one third from the cuticle so that the grown offs wouldn’t show strongly later on. |
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7. Draw the negative of the smile line – this is where you’ll connect the gel of the French end. |
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8. Create the French end with the 526 Brilliant iridescent white gel. |
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9. Form the C-curve with Titanium gel. |
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10. Cure it for 3 minutes and then, fix it and refine the edges and the surface to reach the final shape. |
